Thank you very much, Mr. Chair
Thanks to all of you for being here. Shukran.
Mr. Fatah, I'm going to start with you and then go to Mr. Mansur afterwards. The Russians, the Germans, the Japanese, and the Chinese, all those people, or the vast majority, are peaceful, law-abiding people, but that didn't stop those regimes from collectively killing hundreds of millions of people in history. The vast majority of Muslims are peaceful, law-abiding people. Some say that 10% of them are the limit of the violent minority. Of course, that's about 160 million people, so it's pretty significant.
I recently listened to and chatted with a woman named Karima Bennoune. I don't know if you know her. She's Algerian. She grew up in Algeria. Her father and her family were activists against fundamentalism. They paid the price. She is now a law professor at the University of California, Davis. Her point was—as my point has been to Muslims I know—that unless the majority peaceful Muslims start taking part and standing up to the violent minority, we're all screwed, including them. She has written a book called Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here, which I'm in the process of reading. It's about the stories of 300 or so people, mainly women, who are actually on the front lines in those Muslim communities all over that part of the world and who are actively fighting that.
What can we do to encourage those kinds of people, and not just Karima Bennoune, but the people she talks about, to take up that fight within that community? Because if they don't do it within that community, it's not going to happen.